Andrew Burgess - Envato Tuts+ Profile

Andrew Burgess

Hi! I'm Andrew Burgess, and I'm a connoisseur of all things programming. I'm from near Toronto, Canada, and I've been fooling around with computers for nearly my whole life, both hardware and software. Right now, I'm finishing up a computer science degree. For almost a decade now, I've been playing around with over a dozen programming languages on several different platforms, from JavaScript to Java, from Ruby to Befunge. My favourite has always been JavaScript. I've always enjoyed writing, so when I discovered Tuts+ in 2009, I was excited to start writing tutorials. Since then, I've been writing tutorials and producing screencasts for Tuts+. Right now, I'm a course instructor and I produce mostly JavaScript-related courses. Maybe you've seen Building a Web App from Scratch with Angular.js or Node.js from Scratch; that's me! I've also written a few ebooks, like Getting Good with Git, Getting Good with JavaScript, and, more recently, Backbone.js Blueprints.

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eBooks

Getting Good with PHP
In Getting Good with PHP, Andrew Burgess will teach you everything you need to know about the basics of PHP. Even if you don't have any programming...
Andrew Burgess
19 Sep 2012
Code
Getting Good with Git
In Getting Good With Git, Nettuts+ author Andrew Burgess will guide you through the sometimes-scary waters of source code management with Git, the fast...
Andrew Burgess
26 Aug 2011
Code

Courses

Modern Web Apps With React and Redux
React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces that has taken the web development world by storm. React is known for its blazing-fast performance...
Andrew Burgess
25 Apr 2017
Code
4.1 hours
Deep Dive Into Reactive Programming With RxJS
Reactive programming is a way of coding with asynchronous data streams that makes a lot of problems easier to solve. RxJS is a popular library for reactive...
Andrew Burgess
1 Feb 2017
Code
2.8 hours
Thinking in React: Component Lifecycle Methods
React is a flexible framework that makes it easy to build single-page web applications. One of its tools is a set of lifecycle methods which you can add to...
Andrew Burgess
31 Jan 2017
Code
10 minutes
Thinking in React: JSX Deep Dive
If you're just getting started with React, you might not be happy about learning its template language: JSX. However, JSX is really just a simple syntax...
Andrew Burgess
14 Dec 2016
Code
15 minutes
Modern Web Apps With Angular 2
Angular 2 is more than just the next version of a popular front-end framework. Angular 2 takes all the best parts of Angular 1 and improves them. It's now a...
Andrew Burgess
7 Dec 2016
Code
3.1 hours
Build an Ambitious App With Ember 2
Ember is a front-end JavaScript framework that claims to be for "building ambitious applications". It's no lie! Many of the popular JS libraries used today...
Andrew Burgess
29 Sep 2016
Code
2.9 hours
Unit Testing React Components
React is a very popular library, so you can find courses all over the web that will teach you how to use its amazing features. However, sometimes testing...
Andrew Burgess
29 Jun 2016
Code
26 minutes
Get Started With Meteor
Meteor is a popular framework that makes building web and mobile apps incredibly simple. Meteor excels at building modern, real-time, reactive web apps,...
Andrew Burgess
9 Mar 2016
Code
3 hours
NPM Scripts for Build Tooling
When developing and deploying a web application, we need to run a number of build steps. CSS needs to be minified, Sass and ES6 need to be transpiled, and...
Andrew Burgess
1 Dec 2015
Code
12 minutes
Building a Wiki With React and Firebase
React is a powerful and effective JavaScript library. In this course, Tuts+ instructor Andrew Burgess will show you how to use it to build a multi-user web...
Andrew Burgess
1 Oct 2015
Code
2 hours
Build a Microblogging App With Flux and React
There's a lot of talk about Flux these days. If you haven't had a chance to try it yet, you might wonder what you're missing! Flux is an architecture for...
Andrew Burgess
1 Sep 2015
Code
4 hours
Comparing Front-End Frameworks
There are so many amazing front-end JavaScript frameworks out there, and sometimes it can be hard to figure out which one to use! Each framework has its...
Andrew Burgess
9 Jun 2015
Code
2.7 hours
Creating Angular Directives
AngularJS is one of the most popular front-end JavaScript libraries available right now. If you've given it a try, you've seen that it has a rather unique...
Andrew Burgess
23 Apr 2015
Code
1.3 hours
Node.js From Scratch
Node.js is an amazing platform. It is the V8 JavaScript that Google Chrome uses on the front end running on a server. As a developer who loves JavaScript in...
Andrew Burgess
17 Mar 2015
Code
1.5 hours
Getting Started with Backbone
There are many front-end libraries to choose from when you're building a web application, and all of them have their pros and cons. In this course, you'll...
Andrew Burgess
27 Feb 2015
Code
1.8 hours
Better Web Apps With AngularUI
AngularJS is a unique and amazing front-end web framework, and AngularUI is a suite of tools made possible by Angular's extensibility. In this course you’ll...
Andrew Burgess
24 Nov 2014
Code
1.4 hours
A Developer's Guide to Setting Up a New Mac
Getting a new Mac is one of the best things that can happen to anyone, but especially a developer. Since you use your computer all day, it's important to...
Andrew Burgess
13 Nov 2014
Code
1.5 hours
Building a Web App From Scratch With AngularJS
AngularJS is an amazing front-end framework that has a very novel approach to building web applications, completely unlike any of the other web frameworks...
Andrew Burgess
29 Sep 2014
Code
2.7 hours
Getting Started with Express
Express is one of the most popular frameworks for building web applications in Node. Recently, version 4 of Express was released, and with it there are a...
Andrew Burgess
11 Sep 2014
Code
1.1 hours
Build a Multi-Player Card Game With Meteor
Meteor is an amazing framework that makes building complex web applications much simpler. Its easy-to-use APIs, straightforward database system, and...
Andrew Burgess
28 May 2014
Code
2.5 hours
Building NPM Packages
In this course we're going to build a JavaScript library to publish via the Node Package Manager (NPM). As we go through the process of building the...
Andrew Burgess
18 Apr 2014
Code
1.6 hours
Redis Essential
In this course we’re going to take a look at Redis. Redis isn’t exactly a database: it’s not relational or document-oriented. Instead, it’s a key-value...
Andrew Burgess
5 Feb 2014
Code
1.6 hours
Beautiful Data with D3
Welcome to Beautiful Data with D3. In this course, we’ll be looking at the D3.js library, which makes it incredibly easy to visualize nearly any form of data.
Andrew Burgess
20 Jan 2014
Code
2.6 hours
Getting Good with Grunt
In both front-end and back-end projects, there are so many things to do besides the actual coding: there’s all the maintenance that a project requires:...
Andrew Burgess
27 Nov 2013
Code
1.5 hours
Relational Databases
Databases are everywhere, and it’s fair to say that the most common type is the relational model. If you haven’t checked it out yet, then this is the...
Andrew Burgess
15 Oct 2013
Code
1.5 hours
Building Ribbit in Rails
In this course, we’ll build a Twitter-clone, called Ribbit, from scratch, using Ruby on Rails. Following on from our popular multi-language series on...
Andrew Burgess
23 Sep 2013
Code
2.4 hours
Virtual Machines With Vagrant and Puppet
If you want to create a development environment, then establishing a virtual machine is the way to go. But how do you create them in the first place, then...
Andrew Burgess
12 Jul 2013
Code
1.8 hours
Advanced Command Line Techniques
Want to learn some more advanced command line tips that will help you with Bash and Zsh shells? That’s what this course is all about, and we’ll even write...
Andrew Burgess
9 Jul 2013
Code
2.6 hours
Vim for Advanced Users
So you started with Venture Into Vim, and now you want to learn a few extra tricks. Let’s go deeper down the rabbit hole and learn some advanced tips for Vim.
Andrew Burgess
5 Jun 2013
Code
2.6 hours
Single Page Web Apps with Meteor
Meteor.js is a relatively new JavaScript framework with a lot of rather interesting twists to it. Full database access on the client? The same code running...
Andrew Burgess
18 Feb 2013
Code
3.2 hours
Learning MongoDB
NoSQL databases have received a lot of attention in the last few years, and MongoDB is currently the most popular one. If you’ve been looking at MongoDB...
Andrew Burgess
4 Jan 2013
Code
2.9 hours
Advanced Backbone Patterns and Techniques
Backbone is one of the best JavaScript libraries available, but it’s likely that there are some advanced use cases that you haven’t yet considered. In...
Andrew Burgess
26 Nov 2012
Code
4.4 hours
SQL Essentials
In this course, Andrew Burgess will teach you the essentials of querying databases, using SQL.
Andrew Burgess
16 Oct 2012
Code
2.3 hours
Build Web Apps in Node and Express
Node.js is the JavaScript engine for Chrome, moved to the command line for use as a general programming language. In this course, you’ll learn how to make...
Andrew Burgess
13 Sep 2012
Code
2.4 hours
Git Essentials
Building web applications can be tough, but we sometimes make it tougher than it needs to be. A version control system, like Git, can keep track of bugs,...
Andrew Burgess
16 Jul 2012
Code
3.1 hours
Cleaner Code With CoffeeScript
Welcome! CoffeeScript has taken the web development world by storm since it was released on Christmas Eve in 2009. If you haven’t had the chance to test...
Andrew Burgess
29 Jun 2012
Code
2.2 hours

Tutorials

How to Build an Angular 2 Service
In this video from my course, Modern Web Apps With Angular 2, I'll show you how to use Angular 2 to build a service which will interact with the server.
Andrew Burgess
4 Jan 2017
Code
How to Use the react-redux Package
In this video from my course on Modern Web Apps With React and Redux, I'll show you how to use the `react-redux` package. It’s a best practice in Redux...
Andrew Burgess
7 Sep 2016
Code
Get Started Building Modern Web Apps With React and Redux
In my course, Modern Web Apps With React and Redux, I take you through the full process of building a complete web application with React and Redux. In this...
Andrew Burgess
21 Jul 2016
Code
Create a React Class in 60 Seconds
React is a JavaScript library built and maintained by Facebook that aims to make it easy to build user interfaces using, you guessed it, JavaScript.
Andrew Burgess
26 Nov 2015
Code
Closures in JavaScript
In this video, we're going to talk about the concepts of closures within the JavaScript programming language.
Andrew Burgess
27 May 2015
Code
How To Configure Git & GitHub On Your Mac
As a developer, you probably use Git and GitHub all the time. In this short tutorial, we’ll make sure that’s all set up correctly.
Andrew Burgess
15 Dec 2014
Code
Using Node's Event Module
When I first heard about Node.js, I thought it was just a JavaScript implementation for the server. But it's actually much more: it comes with a host of...
Andrew Burgess
3 Dec 2013
Code
Drawing With Two.js
Advanced graphics are a big part of the web these days, but there are a couple of different renderers in the mix. You could use canvas, of course; but SVG...
Andrew Burgess
28 May 2013
Code
Meet the Connect Framework
Newcomers to NodeJS typically find its API difficult to grasp. Luckily, many developers have created frameworks that make it easier to work with Node....
Andrew Burgess
22 Apr 2013
Code
Writing a Shell Script From Scratch
Writing shell scripts can be rather daunting, primarily because the shell isn't the most friendly of languages to use. However, I hope to show you in this...
Andrew Burgess
19 Apr 2013
Code
Active Record: The Rails Database Bridge
In the past, to build a web application, you required the skills to code in your business logic language and your database language. More recently, however,...
Andrew Burgess
1 Mar 2013
Code
Building Ribbit in Rails
Welcome to the next installment in our Twitter clone series! In this tutorial, we'll build Ribbit from scratch, not using PHP, but with Ruby on Rails. Let's...
Andrew Burgess
11 Jan 2013
Code